McCain is the real deal. Growth needs energy. Industrial growth in the US requires abundant energy supply. If we build rich supply of energy, we gain a comparative advantage to export manufactured products of all kinds, especially if we lower the corporate tax rate to 28% . The developing world has a hunger and money for goods and services. We will fill the demand only if electric energy is plentiful

2:23 pm May 11, 2008

Nat wrote:

Is Carly employed? In an actual job, I mean. If so, she should attend to that job and leave politics to the pros. Otherwise, she will end up as a conservative form of Jane Fonda or Susan Sarandon, or, gulp, Barbra Streisand.
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Carly, if you want to be a politician, run for office. That's the only way to do it. Really.

3:23 pm May 11, 2008

Hillary Clinton wrote:

It really riles me that this Carly woman is trying to steal my voice and speak for all of womankind. If I wasn't so angry, I would either cry or play the race card.

3:26 pm May 11, 2008

R.S. wrote:

Exactly.
If you had Hillary's smarts you'd still be running HP.

3:44 pm May 11, 2008

Love the HP comment wrote:

I wonder why HP and Carly didn't see eye to eye?......HMMMM....

Unfortunately I think we will be stuck with McCane who will reap the benefits of Hillary's demise and her inability to accept the inevitable. Barry is not a viable option

3:57 pm May 11, 2008

HP Off to the races wrote:

It was like as soon as they fired Carly and Mark Hurd took over, HP took off. I mean like the next day. Is this guy a genius or was she just that bad.

4:23 pm May 11, 2008

Anonymous wrote:

like Hillary like Sea Brass. Both don't know when to say never and that to me is inexperience!If Hillary has a better chance to outwit McCain, let her outwit Obama first. the say the proof of the Pudding is in the eating. Beat Obama and prove that you are electable Hillary.

4:26 pm May 11, 2008

Matthew Schor wrote:

Nuclear power creates jobs in the U.S. by keeping dollars that flow to the middle east and russia for oil in the U.S. If we build nuclear power plants, use the resulting abundant electric power to charge plug-in hybrid automobiles (e.g. GM's coming Volt with A123's innovative rechargeable battery pack) we can have a domestic energy system for both electric power AND transportation that cuts our demand for expensive imported petroleum. It would all use domestic technologies (nuclear power, rechargeable lithium power, plug-in hybrids) in short millions of jobs.

We should be building hundreds of nuclear power plants to retire aging polluting coal plants and cutting our reliance on Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Russia for oil. Let's do it!

4:28 pm May 11, 2008

Tampa Dave wrote:

"Appalledanddismayed" and "Freedom from Fear": To finish uop a discussion from a previous topic, my biggest complaint against Obama, versus Hillary, involves HIS version of increasing capital gains taxes and HIS proposal to remove the earnings cap on income subject to the 6.2 % self-employment tax [12.4% for sole proprietors like me]. One of you said there was little difference between the two Democrats agendas, but these specific proposals by Obama affect me most. I personally do not care what you or any WSJ poster likes or dislikes with the various candidates' plans. I specifically object to Obama's two tax proposals because they will cost me $$$$$$$$. I max out the relatively new sole proprietor 401(k)plan [20% of after expense income plus a deferred amount which changes annually] which indeed protects those assets from capital gain exposure. Nonetheless, I incur l.t. capital gains annually via taxable transactions outside my 401(k) that will undoubtedly cost me quite a bit more under Comrade Obama the Socialist, who proposes an increase from the current 15% rate up to 28%! The same holds true with self-employment taxes. I will pay thousands of dollars more annually if Obama removes the earnings cap, something Hillary rectifies with a donut hole exemption between $100k and $200k before the tax is resumed. I'm still hit with Hillary's exemption in place, but not nearly as bad as with Obama. So, do you get my point? I care less about Obama's race, creed, or color. I care about his ability to cost me thousands of $$$$$$$ I can otherwise invest in my family. Call it greed, I really don't care how you characterize my motivation. Just don't apply racist labels to people who have legitimate concerns with specific proposals by particular candidates. If Hillary mimicked Obama's tax reform plans on capital gains and self-employment taxes, I would attack her candidacy with equal vigor.

All you white guys having your usual fair discussion. You were comparing Hillary and Obama. Now you are comparing McCain and Obama.

What you are and have been totally unaware of is that Obama has 90% of the black vote in his back pocket. Anything convincing that you might say has ZERO effect on the black vote one way or another.

You need to wake up and realize this is not business as usual. Any Obama opponent starts with a handicap.

The nomination is slipping away from Hillary not because of this or that consideration. It is because of the frozen black vote. The white vote is overwhelmingly rejecting Obama in great part beacuse he is so inexperienced and so a creation of the frozen black vote. But this has not been enough partly because the white awakening has not happened fully.

If you want to make a difference for Hillary or McCain just vote your skin color and stop this cunning charlatan that Obama is.

Look at all his rallies. Do you see any black people? You don't. He is busy soothing you white folk while the black vote is in his pocket. This is why he is a charlatan. All he has to do is to look OK. He does not have to say much. Generalities is all he needs. The stupid white folk read into it the benevolence that is in their hearts.

The Marxists used to say the capitalists will sell us the rope to hang them with. This is similar. Change your habits, think clearly. This is no regular election.

6:16 pm May 11, 2008

Hal from Lincoln wrote:

Dear West Virginia voters,
The majority of you are for Hillary. This is great! There are some out there for Obama. I know you mean well and you have goodness in your hearts. Just consider that Hillary (and perhaps later McCain) are starting with a handicap across the country. Obama gets all of the black vote. This makes it so it is not an election based on ideas, solutions. So, I pray that you make this election a wake up call for Obama. Give him no votes! Just zero. This is what the black community has been doing for Hillary. If they can do it, so can you. This will wake everyone up to how silly this election really is.
Please do not think I am not a blue collar white person so I am better. I am not blue collar and I make $$$. It is not the blue collar they are wearing but it is the sanity with which they can see right through Obama. This blue collar voter thing is another creation of the Obama camp. The con is that no one will want to think they are blue collar. So they are above it. So they vote for Obama. I cannot begin to tell you what a cunning charlatan this guy Obama is. He never says how grateful he is to the black vote does he? Do you see him campaigning to black folk do you?

6:44 pm May 11, 2008

Rick wrote:

If HP took off immediately after Carly's departure, she must have gotten it in very good shape.
Just didn't make any friends in the process.

McCain is as crooked as they come. If you don't believe me do some research on the Keating 5.

6:57 pm May 11, 2008

A citizen of US wrote:

typical close-minded republicans making an issue out of obama's name...is that all you have?

i don't care what the guy's name is, as long as he can run the country better than the person currently in charge (which shouldn't be that difficult)...

7:03 pm May 11, 2008

Hal from Lincoln wrote:

Either Hillary or McCain are just fine with me. It just does not matter how many lobbyist connections either has. This is another Obama positioning statement to yank white votes. As Calvin Coolidge said: "The business of America is business." WASP ingenuity got us to the highest levels of income worldwide we all enjoy and contribute to. Those who are unhappy can go back to where they came from. It is a free country.
On another note SeaBass must have said it just right. Someone is hurting. He/she must be one of those in Obama's back pocket. If you are so stuck in being pro-Obama you can't really have a discussion can you? I wish you came out told us what all this was about. There are conversations going on among you but not in any forums whites participate in. Are we two countries or one? You will be hurting in the end. You will be isolated like you were never before.

7:06 pm May 11, 2008

Why Hillary is Hillary's McCain's Dream Ticket wrote:

Hillary Clinton. To the conservative base of the Republican Party, she is the Democratic demon and the candidate the Republicans' want to face. She is Rush Limbaugh's candidate of choice. She is the candidate who the Right would use to raise money and turn out volunteers. She is the only potential Democratic VP who would build Republican enthusiasm and inspire the grassroots Republican campaign.
n an ABC News poll, Clinton polls 54 percent unfavorable; perhaps even worse, 58 percent of voters say she is not honest and trustworthy. Both Clintons stand out for the amount of voter antipathy they attract: Thirty-nine percent of voters have a "strongly unfavorable" opinion of Hillary Clinton; only 22 percent have a "strongly favorable" view. Thirty-four percent are strongly negative on Bill Clinton and 51 percent have an "unfavorable" opinion of him. And Hillary's low-road campaign has had an impact: Forty-one percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters describe the tone of the Democratic campaign as "mostly negative," and by nearly a 4 to 1 margin, 52 percent to 14 percent, blame Clinton. Is taking baggage like this into the general election anyone's "dream" but a Republican's

Hillary has been a lousy candidate. I used to think that Al Gore and John Kerry ran the worst campaigns for president ever, but Hillary's ineptitude set new records. Five months ago, Hillary had a 20-plus point lead in Democratic polling, the greatest name recognition of any candidate, the most money, support from a popular former Democratic president who was actively campaigning for her, nostalgia for the Clinton era of "peace and prosperity," a ton of endorsements, the aura of "inevitability" -- and she squandered it all.her campaign's and her own unrelenting arrogance.

undermine the very essence of the Obama message -- that real change is needed in Washington. Hillary as a VP on Obam's ticket is a nightmare.It would be seen as completely inauthentic, the worst type of marriage of convenience. And unlike the shotgun marriage JFK made with LBJ, Hillary brings nothing to the table.

7:08 pm May 11, 2008

Hal from Lincoln wrote:

As long as blacks vote 100% for Obama there is no need to discuss McCain's Keating connections etc. Those lurking in the shadows are trying to get whites to split their votes about McCain. McCain is a good guy.
I would like to know how many blacks died in Iraq? Is it 12% of 4000. Where I live I have seen white, Hispanic faces but have not seen a black face yet. If this number is around 500 I will bow in respects and eat my words. I am just curious. Those who are not willing to die for this country ought not talk about McCain at all.

7:09 pm May 11, 2008

McCain and Iseman connection wrote:

McCain has promoted the interest of Israel over the interest of the American people; he is promoting war at the meat grinder with our sons and children for the sake of Israel…he wants our troops to stay for a hundred year in Iraq to protect Israel…also he was welling to increase the aid paid to Israel that is already costing the American tax payer over 3 Billion a year to support the terror state of Israel in its crimes against the children of the Palestinians and the Middle East…
Now; is it safe to conclude that the connection has been made clear with the affair with lobbyist Iseman surfacing? Does Iseman's Jewish faith is behind this affiliation of McCain to the terrorist regime in Tel Aviv or is it the money to the campaign trail from the lobbies?
Then again; is the real question: Will the American politics get rid of those double loyal lobbyists for good?

7:11 pm May 11, 2008

A voice of Justice wrote:

Israel was forcibly wrested from the Palestinians and has since, continually and illegally annexed further Palestinian land and resources. This has deliberately reduced the Palestinian territories into disconnected and unviable cantons - effectively large concentration camps.

Inside the concentration camps, which cannot support themselves as so much of their resources have been appropriated by the Israelis, the oppression and harassment has been cruel and relentless. Constant air, missile, and helicopter gunship strikes and official and civilian kidnappings and assassinations. Periodic tank-led invasions and destruction followed by further land occupations.

Every now and again, just to rub it in, the camps are blockaded and no UN or other international food and medical or other aid is allowed in and/or power and fuel supplies, also controlled by the US/Israelis, are cut. The current attempts to escape from the Gaza concentration camp into Egypt are a result of one of these US/Israeli super-atrocities.

Now and again, a Palestinian group manages to scrape up the resources to mount a futile gesture of defiance in the form of a small portable missile (nothing compared to those the Israelis rain on them) or a suicide bomber (even sadder). I am informed that a suicide bomb a week or so ago was the first for 18 months. These incidents are seized upon, however, as 'constant terrorism' justifying further attacks, atrocities and encroachments.

The US and Israel, have probably the most compliant (owned by members of the ruling plutocracy) media in the world. Most of their citizens would have no way of uncovering these sort of facts. Many Israelis are probably still unaware that they are a nuclear power - courtesy of more US international outlawry.

All of the US/Israeli actions are, of course, illegal under international law. Neither, of course accept the jurisdiction of either the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court so cannot be brought to book.

I am an Irish (both sides) New Zealander with no axe to grind. I grew up with a great deal of sympathy and empathy with the Jews and therefore Israelis over their Holocaust at the hands of the Nazis. I do not believe, however, that this gives them the right to perpetrate the same crimes against another people - even under US license.

War dead in Iraq:
- 72% white (65% of the population)
- 24% Hispanic (15% of the population)
I deduce from this that:
- at most 4% black (12% of the population)
I think we should draft Obama, have him fight in Iraq or Afghanistan for 2 years. If he passes muster we can then consider him.
England is sending its princes to war. We should too. Good training. Before this any talk of change is superficial.

7:24 pm May 11, 2008

I"m a Republican and my choice is Not McCain wrote:

McCain linked to attractive female lobbyist

Revelations of an eight-year-old relationship between John McCain and
an attractive female lobbyist raises a new question about the GOP
Presidential frontrunner's ethics.

Questions about womanizing by McCain have circulated in Washington for
years and even his senior advisors were convinced eight years ago that
he was involved in an affair with lobbyist Vicki Iseman.

Both McCain and Iseman deny any sexual relationship but word of the
doubts expressed by his staff during his first Presidential run bring
to the forefront questions about whether or not McCain is as ethical
as he claims.

And it is not the first time McCain has been caught in questionable
activity.

7:34 pm May 11, 2008

Hal from Lincoln wrote:

To: I am a Republican and my choice is not McCain.
You are a mole, a plant of the Obama camp. As I said earlier those who are not willing to die for their country ought not talk about McCain. If I am correct your ethnic group had 4% casulaties versus being 12% of the population. You have no right to talk about anything about McCain.
Blacks do not give a hoot about your innuendos. You come here to split the white vote.

7:58 pm May 11, 2008

Appalledanddismayed wrote:

Tampa, I feel your pain. The Social Security Tax increase as proposed by Obama is going to cost me money too. Probably not as much money as you from sound of it, but more money nevertheless. Here's a couple of things to consider.
1. The program is not viable in its present form . Benefits must be cut, retirement age must be increased or some combination thereof. So to pay for more retirees than workers, the workers are going to have to pay more. Those are the facts.
2. Rarely does any one proposal get enacted exactly as it was proposed. I wouldn't be surprised if an exemption for small business people is part of the final law. I know it is risky to count on such a change but that's the best I can do.
3. Currently every dollar over 77K is taxed at 28%. Those of us that have the "juice" to invest and reap lt cap gains should be taxed at LESS than the rate that a family making it by on 80K is taxed on some of that money. I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense. Put another way, some guy that has $1M in spare change, puts it in some hedge fund which goes rampaging around the markets creating all sorts of havoc and occasionally reaping outsized gains should get a 15% rate? Because that's what's happened over the last few years the "haves" are now trouncing the "have nots" and the have nots are starting to get pretty tired of it.
There is this scene in Braveheart where just before the Battle of Stirling the rank and file Scotsmen are beginning to balk at taking on a much larger and better equipped English force. "I'm not fighting for those Bast**ds so that they can get more land and titles" What you have to ask yourself Tampa, is are you just content to be one of the nobles and live off the land and titles (figuratively speaking of course) while the common man literally fights and dies for you?
I apologize if I mistakenly included you in the group that clearly preferred Hillary on racial lines. I accept that you had economic reasons for preferring her over Obama. But you can see now that she is making a purely racial argument in a final attempt to put off the inevitable. She has clearly shown that she is without honor. I look forward to your defense of the inevitable McCain super gaffes. This should be interesting (and fun).

8:11 pm May 11, 2008

I recently switched my party wrote:

The republicans' are the worst terrorists, who have sold this country to thugs like Limbaugh and Bush. I am not a close minded hypocrite like some people on this column, it's stupid people like them who are a Disgrace to this nation and the worst thing is they call themselves American's.
Shame on you all, who are dividing this County.

8:16 pm May 11, 2008

Hatred and Hypocracy will be America's Downfall wrote:

The best proof of this nation's decline is in its complete lack of respect forindividual dignity. ranted, the history of the human race has been one of death and murder in the furtherance of whatever the cause of the day was and/or is but one would think that, after two thousand years of pretending to believe in some sort of loving Higher Power we might have improved our record. The fact seems to be, though, that we are sliding back into the darkness of the soul that characterized Medieval cultures or barbaric tribes from our dim past.

We no longer seem to care about the suffering of our children, we show nearly universal indifference towards our elderly and we happily send off the best and youngest hopes for our future to die in a desert 10,000 miles away in order to insure a good supply of oil for our Corporate masters to mass kill civilians and children, whom we don't even know.

Our children turn on the TV and watch costumed "heroes" who fight and kill their adversaries without even the pretense of attempting to use their minds to solve problems. Each episode ends with the total annihilation of their "enemy".
We had a President who watched a very poor actor in a very violent movie pretend to kill some other actors portraying "terrorists" and was then not only able to initiate military air attacks on an African nation but was not immediately impeached when he admitted the connection.

Hundreds of thousands of women, children and the elderly are massacred by attackers in the night using machetes and axes in the nation of Rwanda only because of the tribe the victims were born into and we as a nation not only stand by and watch but then we later offer foreign assistance money to the leader of these animals and no one cares.

Instead of trying to solve the problem of illegal immigration, we utilize teenage U.S. Marines to intercept these Mexican nationals. Under the pretense of the failed "War on Drugs", these kids, who were only trained to kill in defense of their country, stalk and murder an innocent American child herding his goats along the border. The story was as quickly forgotten as were the ominous lessons the death of this child should have taught our thick headed "leaders".

We have perfected wickedness and selfishness like no other people on earth today. We blame our personal woes on anyone but ourselves and then hate and hurt anyone we can convince ourselves should be the scapegoats for our second-rate lives. We don't know when to stop, either.

Our children will, as always, pay for our mistakes. We pass laws making what we did as kids illegal for our children and then self-righteously put them in prison and ruin their lives in the name of our newly found "morals". We destroy any hope of our children growing up healthy unless they were fortunate enough to be born into a wealthy family. We convince the children to fight our petty battles because we are too cowardly to fight them ourselves.

We stink.

8:23 pm May 11, 2008

Be Careful, Be Very, Very Careful wrote:

Be careful of "Religious" presidents... since religion has a habit of taking good teachings "do unto others" and turning them upside-down... "preemtive strike."

I am not American but my mother is, as are my uncle and cousins so don't think I hate America.

Viewed from Europe, the USA (America) is at its historical cusp, still powerful but slowly losing its relative position to the rest of the world. It succeeded the UK, which reached its cusp at the beginning of the 20th century when it ruled most of the world, had the biggest navy and a formidable military might. America is in this position now.
ussia has now emerged from communism. China is the workplace of the world and India is attempting to follow. The rest of the developing world is improving rapidly.
probably cease to be all powerful as the rest of the world catches up. The standard of living of Americans will gradually suffer very quickly as it's people continue to vote for Pro-Lobbyist Politican's and busy fighting among themselves.

The world needs to take an example from history and not try to re-enact the wars of the 20th century as the position of power shifts. No one side can stop the progress of others and a lot of co-operation will be needed to ensure a just and equal sharing of the worlds resourse which is no longer American's hegiomany.

8:46 pm May 11, 2008

Really Appalledanddismayed wrote:

Hal- did you think we wouldn't check. The demographics for the Iraqi war dead are as follows
Caucasian 75.5%
Hispanics 10.8%
African Amer 9.5%
Other 5.3%
My source is http://www.deathsiniraq.com/casualties-race.html
Incidentally these statistics usually mirror the makeup of the armed forces themselves. I guess you are duplicating the tactics of your mentor Hillary in printing outright lies to attempt to make your point. But to misrepresent the contributions of those who have given their "last full measure of devotion" to this country... well that just plain dishonorable. Shame on you.

8:56 pm May 11, 2008

Really Appalledanddismayed wrote:

Correction to the above post for "other".
Hal- did you think we wouldn't check. The demographics for the Iraqi war dead are as follows
Caucasian 75.5%
Hispanics 10.8%
African Amer 9.5%
Other 4.2%
My source is http://www.deathsiniraq.com/casualties-race.html
Incidentally these statistics usually mirror the makeup of the armed forces themselves. I guess you are duplicating the tactics of your mentor Hillary in printing outright lies to attempt to make your point. But to misrepresent the contributions of those who have given their "last full measure of devotion" to this country... well that just plain dishonorable. Shame on you.

10:17 pm May 11, 2008

Benoit Balz wrote:

Sounds like Fiorina's a moron. But it's great that idiots like her, Limbaugh and Hannity are behind McCain. You know what? Obama was right with his "cling" comments about the fearful hard-working white masses. Let's remember the sad, embarrassing failures of Bush/Cheney/Rummy/Gonzo/Condi.

10:10 am May 12, 2008

Anti-Racist wrote:

It really is scary to see that there are still so many people out there that focus so much on race (subconsciously or consciously). If we can overcome such ignorance, we will surely have overcome other ignorant mindsets, such as faulting Hillary Rodman Clinton for being a woman or John Sidney McCain (that's a knock at the idiot who is keeps attempting to invoke Barack's middle name to create fear) for being quite elderly. If any of these characteristics of the candidates are fair game it would obviously be McCain's age given the scientifically proven biological effects of age, and even that shouldn't be an issue in my view---what are some the ages of our Supreme Court Justices, 90?

12:02 pm May 12, 2008

KDM wrote:

Why do liberals spend so much time calling conservatives, morons and racists and then, often in the same post, pat themselves on the back for being open-minded and intelletual. Guys, we don't like Obama becuse he's too liberal, too naive and condescending as hell. If he were white with all of those attributes, nost conservatives still wouldn't be able to stand him. Just ask John Kerry.

1:21 pm May 12, 2008

You are off subject - NE wrote:

So much for a good discussion on the article. Since most of you are off base of this article, McCain is the safest choice. Our country is headed for depression and you all need to keep in mind that it's lost it's main focus which is it was built on God's love.

1:21 pm May 12, 2008

The Bilderbergs wrote:

How’s your memory? I hope it isn’t too good like most americans who have a two minute attention span. It could be just like old times again drinking Bilderberg wine and Cindi Beer. John is one of us be nice to him!

Just another sign of the same old corrupt players in the financial matrix of globalisation back at work to misdirect you once again. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on –!

Vintage 1970′ & 1980’s, sound familiar, and the conspiracy people are nuts right, like Perot on Nafta? Sure we are, just another financial machination, nothing to get excited about.

Some regulators noted the danger and pushed for more oversight, but Congress refused. Some of this may be due to the Keating Five, five Senators (Dennis DeConcini, Alan Cranston, John Glenn, Don Riegle and John McCain) who had received some $300,000 from Keating in the 1980s as political contributions. They later met twice with regulators who were investigating American Continental Corp., in an attempt to end the investigation. (In 1990, they would be rebuked to various degrees by the Senate Ethics Committee.)

In 1985, Keating hired Alan Greenspan as an economic consultant, in an effort to convince an oversight agency to exempt Lincoln Savings from certain regulations. Greenspan delivered a favorable report, writing that Lincoln Savings was “a financially strong institution that presents no foreseeable risk to depositors or the government.” (Greenspan produced similar favorable reports on numerous other banks that also failed soon after.) The agency ultimately declined the request.

American Continental Corporation, the parent of Lincoln Savings, went bankrupt in 1989. More than 21,000 mostly elderly investors lost their life savings, in total about $285 million. This occurred largely because they held securities backed by the parent company rather than deposits in the federally-insured institution, a distinction apparently lost on many if not most depositors until it was too late. The federal government covered almost $3 billion of Lincoln’s losses when it seized the institution. Many creditors were made whole, and the government then attempted to liquidate the seized assets through its Resolution Trust Corporation, often at pennies on the dollar compared to what the property had allegedly been worth and the valuation at which loans against it had been made.

In 1989, Keating, when subpoenaed to testify before the House Banking Committee, invoked his right against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[1][2], Later on he was convicted and sentenced to prison. He is not a loved man! He became the ultimate poster boy for corporate crooks.

1:25 pm May 12, 2008

Fun and games wrote:

McCain’s Divorce
Before John McCain’s tour of duty in Vietnam, he married Carol Shepp, a model from Philadelphia. On his 23rd bombing mission over North Vietnam in 1967, McCain was shot down and captured.
While he was imprisoned, Carol was in an auto wreck (1969), thrown through her car’s windshield and left seriously injured. Despite her injures, she refused to allow her POW husband to be notified about her condition, fearing that such news would not be good for him while he was being held prisoner.

When McCain returned to the United States in 1973 after more than five years as a prisoner of war, he found his wife was a different person. The accident “left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches, and she had gained a good deal of weight.”

Yearning to make the grade of admiral, McCain enrolled in the National War College at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. and underwent physical therapy in order to fly again. The Navy excused his permanent disabilities and reinstated him to flight status, effectively positioning him for promotion.

In his book, The Nightingale’s Song, Robert Timberg chronicled McCain’s post-Vietnam military assignments and some of his “adulterous” behavior leading to his divorce from Carol and marriage to Cindy Hensley.

Timberg wrote, “in the fall of 1974, McCain was transferred to Jacksonville as the executive officer of Replacement Air Group 174, the long-sought flying billet at last a reality. A few months later, he assumed command of the RAG, which trained pilots and crews for carrier deployments. The assignment was controversial, some calling it favoritism, a sop to the famous son of a famous father and grandfather [both were Navy admirals], since he had not first commanded a squadron, the usual career path.”

While Executive Officer and later as Squadron Commander McCain used his authority to arrange frequent flights that allowed him to carouse with subordinates and “engage in extra-marital affairs.” Such behavior was a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice rules against adultery and fraternization with subordinates..

Timberg wrote, “Off duty, usually on routine cross-country flights to Yuma and El Centro, John started carousing and running around with women. To make matters worse, some of the women with whom he was linked by rumor were subordinates . . . At the time the rumors were so widespread that, true or not, they became part of McCain’s persona, impossible not to take note of.”

In early 1977, Admiral Jim Holloway, Chief of Naval Operations promoted McCain to captain and transferred him from his command position “to Washington as the number-two man in the Navy’s Senate liaison office. It wasn’t long before the “fun loving and irreverent” McCain had turned the liaison office into a “late-afternoon gathering spot where senators and staffers, usually from the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, would drop in for a drink and the chance to unwind.”

In 1979 at a military reception in Honolulu, McCain met Cindy Hensley, an attractive 25-year-old woman from a very wealthy politically-connected Arizona family. Cindy’s father, Jim, founded the Hensley and Company, the nation’s third-largest Anheuser-Busch distributor.

McCain described their first meeting, “She was lovely, intelligent and charming, 17 years my junior but poised and confident. I monopolized her attention the entire time, taking care to prevent anyone else from intruding on our conversation. When it came time to leave the party, I persuaded her to join me for drinks at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. By the evening’s end, I was in love.”

While still married to Carol, McCain began an adulterous relationship with Cindy. He married Cindy in May 1980 — just a month after dumping Carol and securing a divorce. The newlyweds honeymooned in Hawaii.

McCain followed his young, millionairess wife back to Arizona where her father helped catapult McCain into politics,

Today, Cindy Hensley McCain is chairwoman of Hensley’s board of directors. Hensley and Company financial reports show assets worth a minimum of $100 million for the McCains

1:28 pm May 12, 2008

Mort Sahl wrote:

Cindy doesn’r want John to know what she makes, because she might have to give him a bigger allowance, I hope he’s keeping up with his chores at home!

1:33 pm May 12, 2008

Dr. Phil wrote:

Wow, McCain did a great flush job on the first wife, get him on my show now, schedule counseling and get a priest in for the moral issues involved. This guys a real beaut What a show it will be, I can one up Barbara Walters.

1:35 pm May 12, 2008

The truth hurts wrote:

injured (walking with a limp) and poor, and married the trophy wife with a 100 million and a lot of bad beer at that. The Keating affair was really tawdry, and then there’s that troublesome fence and illegal alien problem in Arizona which caused him to barely win the Republican primary there. Let’s face it he is no jewel, more like a badly flawed piece of costume jewelry.

1:51 pm May 12, 2008

Face It wrote:

All 3 are crooks, time for revolution,, let's

1:55 pm May 12, 2008

If you can't write, acknowledge it! wrote:

Love the copy and paste jobs on other people's articles.. Let's see that would be called plagiarism!

3:56 pm May 12, 2008

Dumpster Guys wrote:

McCain and Gingrich are good at dumping wives who have health problems for young er trophy wives, and then they tell us how to live. They sure are the epitome of hypocrisy!

7:05 pm May 12, 2008

TSR wrote:

To Nat at 2:33: RIGHT ON!
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Carly was a walking disaster at HP. She took one of the greatest companies of all time and made it into just another corporation. She took excellence and turned it into mediocrity. She was praised for being a woman in the "all boys club" (CEO's), she was considered intriguing for heading an engineering company without having an engineering degree. But in the end it was just PR.
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She simply did not possess the technical competence to manage a high-tech electronics manufacturing company. And as unfashionable as it might seem, things like technical competence do count.
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So having failed in industry she now sees an opportunity to be the figurehead "Republican Woman", kind of the flip side to Hillary in the Democratic Party. But in reality the two are very similar. Both are blithering incompetents who view their gender as their dominant positive characteristic.
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There are many, many, intelligent, capable, women in the Republican Party, and I hope John McCain will have the good sense to associate with them rather than the likes of our dear Carly.

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